Thursday, March 23, 2017

The chatbots — basic software programs with a bit of artificial intelligence and rudimentary communication skills — would send messages on Twitter based on a topic, usually defined on the social network by a word preceded by a hashtag symbol, like #Clinton.Their purpose: to rant, confuse people on facts, or simply muddy discussions, said Philip N. Howard, a sociologist at the Oxford Internet Institute and one of the authors of the report. If you were looking for a real debate of the issues, you weren’t going to find it with a chatbot.“They’re yelling fools,” Dr. Howard said. “And a lot of what they pass around is false news.”

So Trump was allied with Wikileaks, the Rooskies, and baby Skynet.
Maybe we ought to start checking for links to the Illuminati.
I'll just note that it sounds like Clinton's chatbot army was meant to do the same nefarious things as Trump's chatbot army...